The slow, then sudden decline of Stack Overflow.

Full article: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-mak...

Stephen Wolfram's writings excel at exploring complex concepts through simple building blocks, for example, exploring evolution with cellular automata

His blog posts are visually stunning and simply a joy to read. Highly recommended!

writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/foun...

🗣️"Las necesidades actuales de la población están infladas en un modelo hiperconsumista únicamente para aumentar el capital."

📄 Pocas voces actualmente tienen la lucidez, conocimiento y capacidad divulgativa de Antonio Turiel.

‼️TODO EL MUNDO debería leer esta entrevista: ctxt.es/es/20241201/...

2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

"How can we trust that Bluesky will stay a viable business, while also not selling ads? (that is a business model that tends to destroy open ecosystems"

A very important question.

Naturally, one we asked from the Bluesky team, in our deepdive:

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky-en...

This site tracks the BlueSky user numbers in (almost) real-time: bcounter.nat.vg

Queridos periodistas,
No se debe usar "desastre/catástrofe natural". Los desastres provocados por riesgos naturales son siempre el resultado de las acciones y las decisiones humanas. Un desastre no es natural y que las acciones humanas pueden prevenir y mitigar sus impactos. Aquí otros conceptos:

Incredible work by @gustafjt.bsky.social ! -> Visualizing 13 million BlueSky users wow
joelgustafson.com/posts/2024-1...

now might be a good time to plug the talk i gave last month about the AT Protocol. it’s about the relationship between the user and the product, about the shape of the web, and a bit about death

We’ve put a lot of work into making Bluesky a healthier social network. This app is designed to give you a choice — in what you want to see, what you don’t want to see, and how you want to interact.

Some tips on how to customize your experience:

Very impressed by Recraft AI - a new image generation service that can generate editable vector graphics that you can export as SVG
This seems massively more useful than tools that can only output raster graphics
simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/15/...

"when bluesky gets decentralized, everyone will be on their server"

no! you're confusing this with mastodon.

on bluesky, the thing getting decentralized is where the data is stored. it does not fragment your user experience or change where you log in.

atproto enables seamless decentralization

We’re live on vlt.sh ⚡️

Starting with a fresh new (and fast!) OSS package manager for you to try out, that includes an innovative UI that enables you to visually navigate your dependencies.

Try it out now:

`npm i -g vlt`